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pki··on Israel deploys automated military robots
Prod/staging environments now taken seriously
pki··on Reverse Engineering Native Apps by Intercepting Network Traffic
Clever-enough is the key word, with Safetynet involved, which dynamically executes signed classes and you don't know what checks will be done
pki··on YouTube's road to HTTPS
I am less curious about the year and more curious as to how the hell flip phones are rendering video. Like 64p 3GPP or something realtime transcoded?
pki··on Reverse Engineering Native Apps by Intercepting Network Traffic
At least on Android you can generate a fake VPN-esque connection locally that passes everything through a proxy, so the proxy isn't exposed to the application
pki··on Image Hosting on Reddit
Also variably checks http accept headers (<img src> produces accept of image/* iirc)
pki··on Ask HN: Why do browsers still support pop up dialogs and other bad behavior?
Isn't it for setting cookies not on the google.com domain?
pki··on CertBot: Automatically enable HTTPS on your website with Let's Encrypt certs
You already proved that you have access to it. Why is that no question asked?

Normal DV certs are either "add a CNAME, upload a uniquely named html / txt file, or click a link in an email" -- you've already done one of those (automatically in caddy)

pki··on Campaign demands telecoms unlock the FM radio found in many smartphones
> I'd demand my money back, and contract canceled

$500 early termination fee, 8-12 weeks for a "partial refund" via cheque ;)

pki··on Ask HN: Which cloud provider to use in 2016? AWS or GCE?
GCE ~= EC2

GAE ~= Elastic Beanstalk

pki··on Wikipedia Android app now requests identity permissions
then we get into the whole "at what point do we stop supporting windows xp for real this time guys" argument though..
pki··on Widespread XSS Vulnerabilities in Ad Network Code
html5-sandbox or iframe will have you terminated from adsense, at least. don't know about the others.
pki··on Google is killing yet another rival
> Demand Media, a provider of online content, has seen its shares crater 96% since 2011 as Google made changes to its proprietary search engine formula making it more difficult to find articles written by Demand Media.

I am really really happy about this. Because all they do is SEO spam garbage.

pki··on Google is killing yet another rival
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Interactive#Divisions - "a bit of everything" it seems
pki··on Chinese Tech Group Led by Qihoo 360 Bids $1.2B for Browser Maker Opera
Any product by 360 is effectively malware. They are by no means a legitimate "security software" vendor.
pki··on Adblock Indiscriminately blocks the css class “follow-button”
adblock does not. an adblock filter you have installed does.
pki··on Tails 2.0 is out
type 'danger' on the warning page
pki··on Show HN: Teevox – Twitch Multistream Player,made in Static HTML, React, Firebase
Twitch player is flash.
pki··on Show HN: CMS.js – Fully Client-Side JavaScript Site Generator
Google has done JS for years now, far more advanced than just AJAX
pki··on ISIS Has a Smartphone App
Sure, it's not hard, then you get into side channel, first-use-trust/update, MITM, etc territory.
pki··on Nextbit
Do you have a good GPU?
pki··on Gas Theft Gangs Fuel Pump Skimming Scams
> special secure operation mode might be needed for this sort of use case, one which can't be subverted by normally installed software

Now people will complain that "the app doesn't run on their rooted, bootloader unlocked, jailbroken phones"

pki··on Gas Theft Gangs Fuel Pump Skimming Scams
It's a shame that chip and signature is used in the states though..
pki··on Does YCombinator have to use Google for captcha?
this is done by cloudflare, not hn i think.
pki··on Android-x86 dev offers $50k for proof of contribution by Kickstarted ConsoleOS
They already haven't delivered anything.

The only thing they have after a kickstarter where they called android-x86 and other such projects garbage and inefficient is... a fork of android-x86, where the only change is the removal of copyrights, names, and a find-replace of androidx86 -> consoleos.

I think the initial (non-subredditdrama) thread is here - https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/3y840w/console_os_...

pki··on Springer Textbooks More Than 10 Years Old Available for Free Legal Download
there is somewhat of a difference between "purchasing something for 0.00 with appropriate distribution after creating an account at a webshop" and "torrenting a pdf"
pki··on DOCSIS 3.1 gigabit class modem goes online in Philadelphia
People that play games and get 1ms latency vs 20-30ms latency within the same town/city care, and that isn't a very small market..
pki··on Why are Verizon gift cards selling for more than face value on eBay?
There was a previous deal a few months ago where verizon gave $100 for every smartphone traded in in the form of a vzw gift card. (Specifically wireless, not fios/etc applicable). It was ludicrously abused and people were purchasing bulk 1000+ android 2.x, 4.0 prepaids to ship in. If people offer you a large amount in denominations or multiples of 100, 18, or 38 it's probably from that.

IIRC there was a subreddit dedicated to scamming the promotion and "maximising value"

pki··on Why are Verizon gift cards selling for more than face value on eBay?
people use ebay bucks or ebay gift cards (often 90 for 100 or 85 for 100 value)

verizon itself is having some ridiculous promotions lately (requires 2yr/contract, but you can get something like $700 in tradeins - note: the tradein can be a $50 garbage-android)

pki··on How to stop a DDoS attack
Cloudflare lets you announce your own IP space through their serivce on non-personal plans don't they?
pki··on Google Patents Needle-Free Blood Draw
I'd love to know why you think this way.
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